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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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Like a wooer and a husband

Like a wooer and a husbandI devote myself to your faithsince being a husband does not implya courtly surrender.Like a wooer I pursue your lovebecause I wish to meritthe privileges of a husbandthough I…

Are You

Are you Avraham’s, Yitzhak’s, Yaakov’s? Are you my mother’s god? What’s mine of all this? What did I take by force of hand and why am I alone in a city meant to be my city on account of a mother born…

The Poverty Line

As if you could draw a line and say: below this there’s poverty. Here’s the bread that turned black in the colorations Of cheap makeup And the olives in their little plate Atop the cloth over the…
Oval seal decorated with garland and four pomegranates at top and Hebrew inscription.
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Seal of Netanyahu Son of Yaush

Found in Jerusalem in the plaza of the Western Wall and possibly made of limestone, the top register of this seal contains a garland of four pomegranates, one of which was damaged when the seal was…

Deconstruction

The courtyard of the home of Naomi and Yitzhak. On a table, drinks and dried fruits […]Naomi:You look a little tired, Shmulik. […]Shmulik:Yes…